Environment
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Beavan

I once read this story about a Japanese Zen master who founded a temple in Minneapolis. As I remember it, he was very old and ill and had ceased teaching, ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 24,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-16 | Author:Jon Young

Historically, a dichotomy has been drawn between the semantic communication of human language and the apparently emotional calls of animals. Current research paints a more complicated picture. Just as scientists ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:E. Kirsten Peters

Some glacial ice is pretty filthy stuff. True, there are a few glaciers that are made of clean and beautifully blue ice—the ones that show up pictured in advertisements. But ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Glavin

A flower An Apple Is a Kind of Rose For the majority of humanity that does not have to watch nature on television but continues to live in rural societies, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Leila Darwish [Darwish, Leila]

Figs. 6.7 and 6.8: Laying out wood chips and inoculating with king stropharia (Stropharia rugosoannulata) CREDIT: JA SCHINDLER DEALING WITH THE OLD TOXIC COMPOST The second setup we worked out ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design April 20,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-05-07 | Author:Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman [Tougias, Michael J.]

Bushy-browed WOCB newsman Ed Semprini had survived the grueling drive down snow-covered Route 28. The bad weather had not let up once during the twenty-one-mile trek from Hyannis to Chatham. ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 20,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Bogard

NOCTURNE WITH MOTHS ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE “Maaar-tiiin!” The mother’s voice, more exasperated than angry, hung on the evening air. “Come on home, son. It’s time you got inside.” But as ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 20,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2004-02-12 | Author:David Suzuki & Holly Dressel

If You Don’t Look, You Don’t Find The fusarium fungus can produce a range of toxins that are not destroyed in the cooking process, such as vomitoxin .... More lethal ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 20,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-04-19 | Author:David Quammen

43 The growth curve of the Romanian bear population over the past sixty years, as charted by ICAS, shows a peculiar correlation between ursine abundance and autocratic oppression: positive. Bad ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:David S. Abraham

IX Sustainable Use The Environmental Calculus of the Rare Metal Age Zhang Yang’e, a Chinese farmer from the remote village of Dingnan in Jiangxi Province, lives some ten meters from ...
( Category: Industries April 19,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Dauvergne [SPi]

Defining “Organic” and “Grass-Fed” Beef Under its2002 National Organic Program, the USDA defines the term “organic” with more exacting standards than the term “natural.” Accredited agents inspect farms and certify ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 19,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Peter Dauvergne [Dauvergne, Peter]

16 The Ecology of Big Beef Producing so much beef involves many ecological costs. Farmers are tilling land with pesticides and fertilizers to grow enough grain to fatten cattle quickly. ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 19,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Jessica K. Weir [Weir, Jessica K.]

The many tensions and fractious understandings encumbered in dialogue between Indigenous peoples and governments about Indigenous rights and identity were revealed in the bitter contest known simply as ‘Hindmarsh’. This ...
( Category: Americas April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:William T. Vollmann

( Category: Earth Sciences April 19,2018 )